Favorite Quotations
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Daily Quotes
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what if I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny.
Akhenaton
The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.
H. E. Martz
He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes.
Swingers
Trent I'm making Gretzky's head bleed for super-fan 99 over here
Michael Wilding
You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves.
Ogden Nash
He without benefit of scruples His fun and money soon quadruples.
Adam Smith
The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.
Carl Sagan
When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Science is to see what everyone else has seen but think what no one else has thought.
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Here are the Quotes ...
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what if I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny.
Akhenaton
The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.
H. E. Martz
He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes.
Swingers
Trent I'm making Gretzky's head bleed for super-fan 99 over here
Michael Wilding
You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves.
Ogden Nash
He without benefit of scruples His fun and money soon quadruples.
Adam Smith
The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.
Carl Sagan
When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Science is to see what everyone else has seen but think what no one else has thought.
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Today's Famous Quotes
Danish proverb
No revenge is more honourable than the one not taken.
Brendan Francis
People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.
Big Daddy Lipscomb
I just wrap my arms around the whole backfield and peel 'em one by one until I get to the ball carrier. Him I keep.
Walter F. Ulmer
The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose ... to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
Slogan of the Tupamaros
Words divide us, actions unite us.
Peter Lynch
Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.
Ivan Pavlov
Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.
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Check out these Famous Quotes:
Danish proverb
No revenge is more honourable than the one not taken.
Brendan Francis
People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.
Big Daddy Lipscomb
I just wrap my arms around the whole backfield and peel 'em one by one until I get to the ball carrier. Him I keep.
Walter F. Ulmer
The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose ... to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
Slogan of the Tupamaros
Words divide us, actions unite us.
Peter Lynch
Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.
Ivan Pavlov
Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.
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Famous Quotations for Today
Norman Vincent Peale
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
Clive Staples Lewis
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Anon.
One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.
Robert Charles Benchley
A great many people have come up to me and asked me how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated. My answer is 'Don't you wish you knew'
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
I scrambled to the top of the precipice where Nick was waiting. 'That was fun,' I said. 'You bet it was,' said Nick. 'Let's climb higher.' 'No,' I said. 'I think we should be heading back now.' 'We have time,' Nick insisted. I said we didn't, and Nick said we did. We argued back and forth like that for about 20 minutes, then finally decided to head back. I didn't say it was an interesting story.
Spinoza, Dutch Philosopher
I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.
Albert Camus
Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
Koran
If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to the poor, then that is better still for you and this wipes off from you some of your evil deeds.
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Today's Famous Quotations:
Norman Vincent Peale
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
Clive Staples Lewis
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Anon.
One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.
Robert Charles Benchley
A great many people have come up to me and asked me how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated. My answer is 'Don't you wish you knew'
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
I scrambled to the top of the precipice where Nick was waiting. 'That was fun,' I said. 'You bet it was,' said Nick. 'Let's climb higher.' 'No,' I said. 'I think we should be heading back now.' 'We have time,' Nick insisted. I said we didn't, and Nick said we did. We argued back and forth like that for about 20 minutes, then finally decided to head back. I didn't say it was an interesting story.
Spinoza, Dutch Philosopher
I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.
Albert Camus
Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
Koran
If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to the poor, then that is better still for you and this wipes off from you some of your evil deeds.
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Great Famous Quotations
H.L. Mencken
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
Francis Bacon
Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 04, 2004
I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.
John Dryden
They think to little who talk to much.
Laertius Diogenes
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
Ambrose Bierce
Absurdity, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
William Wharton
What is love? As far as I can tell, is is passion, admiration, and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you dont have to die to go to heaven.
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Famous Quotations:
H.L. Mencken
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
Francis Bacon
Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 04, 2004
I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.
John Dryden
They think to little who talk to much.
Laertius Diogenes
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
Ambrose Bierce
Absurdity, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
William Wharton
What is love? As far as I can tell, is is passion, admiration, and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you dont have to die to go to heaven.
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Great Quotes
A. M. Rosenthal
If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you are in the wrong business.
William Shakespeare
I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
Charles Peguy
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
Jefferson Davis
Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.
English Proverb
Many things are lost for want of asking.
Arnold Edinborough
Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
Jacques Maritain
Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
More Quotes
FACTBOX - Quotes from Zimbabwe's crucial election (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
Sat, 29 Mar 2008 08:48:00 GMT
(Reuters) - Zimbabweans desperate for change began voting on Saturday in the most crucial election since independence from Britain in 1980, with veteran President Robert Mugabe facing the biggest challenge of his 28-year-rule.
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Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:51:03 GMT
Bahrain preview quotes: Honda
FACTBOX-Quotes from Zimbabwe's crucial election (AlertNet)
Sat, 29 Mar 2008 08:43:57 GMT
Source: Reuters March 29 (Reuters) - Zimbabweans desperate for change began voting on Saturday in the most crucial election since independence from Britain in 1980, with veteran President Robert Mugabe facing the ...
Now hear this: Entertainment quotes (The Globe Gazette)
Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:14:46 GMT
``I meant no disrespect to Ms. Jennifer Garner when I met her at the Oscars and apologize if I made her uncomfortable.'' — Gary Busey, apologizing for awkwardly embracing Garner on the red carpet at the Oscars last month.
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Straight to the Quotes ...
A. M. Rosenthal
If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you are in the wrong business.
William Shakespeare
I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
Charles Peguy
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
Jefferson Davis
Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.
English Proverb
Many things are lost for want of asking.
Arnold Edinborough
Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
Jacques Maritain
Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
More Quotes
FACTBOX - Quotes from Zimbabwe's crucial election (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
Sat, 29 Mar 2008 08:48:00 GMT
(Reuters) - Zimbabweans desperate for change began voting on Saturday in the most crucial election since independence from Britain in 1980, with veteran President Robert Mugabe facing the biggest challenge of his 28-year-rule.
F1: Bahrain preview quotes: Honda (autosport.com)
Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:51:03 GMT
Bahrain preview quotes: Honda
FACTBOX-Quotes from Zimbabwe's crucial election (AlertNet)
Sat, 29 Mar 2008 08:43:57 GMT
Source: Reuters March 29 (Reuters) - Zimbabweans desperate for change began voting on Saturday in the most crucial election since independence from Britain in 1980, with veteran President Robert Mugabe facing the ...
Now hear this: Entertainment quotes (The Globe Gazette)
Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:14:46 GMT
``I meant no disrespect to Ms. Jennifer Garner when I met her at the Oscars and apologize if I made her uncomfortable.'' — Gary Busey, apologizing for awkwardly embracing Garner on the red carpet at the Oscars last month.
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